Subject: Re: [TML]ChemistryQuestion
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com, "Tim" <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
 Date: Saturday, May 10, 2014, 11:22 PM

 On Sun, May 11, 2014 at
 12:40 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
 wrote:

 Human societies could in theory
 self-select to this extent, but I

 would not expect them to do so.  Failing direct genetic
 engineering,

 it would likely involve selecting for their children to have
 ever more

 extreme variations, killing or casting out those that are
 too normal

 to the original type.

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on Sat, 5/10/14, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Several
 historical societies - the Spartans and Vikings spring
 immediately to mind - killed those who were born too
 different. It's not that hard for me to imagine a
 society that would do so for those not born different
 *enough,* particularly if the society was trying to match
 some sort of non-human ideal. For example, a bunch of early
 humans left behind by Grandfather's departed
 humanoid-form robots, who are seeking to match the forms of
 those legendary "angelic" caretakers.

 However, what's hard
 for me to imagine is such a society lasting long enough to
 actually effect significant genetic change. Even the Vilani
 only go back a couple of thousand generations or so.

 Richard Aiken

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Gee, I thought it was a lot longer than that.
Didn't the 'Ancient's War' end (TU time) about 100,000 years ago?
And the Ancients had been 'experimenting' w/ humans for a long time before that, weren't they?
"Taken from earth about 250,000 years ago" comes to mind but I don't recall where I got it from...